Emma Donaldson-Feilder
Emma Donaldson-Feilder is a Director of Affinity Health at Work and Chartered Occupational Psychologist who specialises in helping organisations achieve sustainable business performance through improvements in the well-being, morale, productivity and engagement of staff. Emma combines practitioner, coaching and research roles with writing and presenting on workplace well-being:
As a practitioner and coach, Emma works with a wide range of clients in the public and private sectors, to help employers and managers improve staff well-being, engagement and morale. Recent and current projects include executive coaching for senior managers within a large IT consultancy, stress management coaching for individuals in the Home Office, an employee engagement programme with Government Skills (the sector skills council for central government), a programme of work on resilience and workplace health for the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, and individual stress risk assessments for an NHS Trust and a private consultancy company.
Together with Joanna Yarker and Rachel Lewis, Emma runs a research programme investigating the link between leadership/management and employee stress/well-being, funded by the Health and Safety Executive, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Investors in People. The team was awarded Practitioner of the Year 2007 by the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology for this project. In collaboration with Fehmidah Munir of Loughborough University, Emma and Joanna are also conducting a research programme looking at line managers' role in facilitating employees' return-to-work following long-term sickness absence.
Emma is Consultant Editor for a CIPD subscription publication about well-being and performance and author of numerous publications in the field, including recent book chapters and a range of journal and magazine articles. She is a regular presenter at professional and academic conferences and contributes lectures to the MSc in Occupational Psychology at various universities. She also appears on radio and TV providing expert comment on issues relating to health at work.
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